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Updated 1 month, 1 week ago

The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday

The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Report: Inmate wore janitor's uniform to escape from prison

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An inmate who escaped from a North Carolina prison last week put on a janitor’s uniform and followed another employee out the door, according to a report from a state agency.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Stock indexes shake off weak start and close broadly higher

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market shook off a weak start and ended broadly higher after pinballing through another day of unsettled trading. The S&P 500 rose 1.3% Tuesday. It had been down nearly 1% in the early goi…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Virginia judge upholds much of new gun background check law

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge on Tuesday upheld much of a new state law that expands background checks for gun buyers but issued an injunction preventing it from being enforced on buyers between 18 to 20 y…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Attorneys ask Floyd judge to hold AG Ellison in contempt

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death are asking a judge to hold Attorney General Keith Ellison in contempt for violating a gag order.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
The Latest: Arizona reports more than 4,000 virus cases

PHOENIX -- Arizona reported 4,273 confirmed coronavirus cases Tuesday and an all-time high in hospitalizations.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
South Africa surpasses the UK in confirmed coronavirus cases

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa on Tuesday surpassed the U.K. in its number of confirmed coronavirus cases as the country's president warns of "the gravest crisis in the history of our democracy.”

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Officer's actions toward Black Indiana senator under review

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana State Police are reviewing allegations that a white Capitol Police officer reached for his handgun while confronting a Black state senator inside the Statehouse over the weekend, an agen…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
No bodies found yet in search for Tulsa massacre victims

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Archaeologists resumed searching a Tulsa cemetery on Tuesday but found no signs of human remains from victims of the

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Police can't access LAPD gang database records after scandal

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California attorney general on Tuesday made it impossible for law enforcement agencies to access entries that Los Angeles police made in the state's gang database after three LA officers were…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Poland: Politician vows steps to make media more 'realistic'

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party said Tuesday that some news media are misrepresenting the country's image and vowed that steps would be taken to make them see things in a “more …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Former leader of neo-Nazi group pleads guilty to 'swatting'

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A founder and former leader of a neo-Nazi group has pleaded guilty to conspiring to place hoax phone calls targeting an African American church, a Cabinet official, journalists and others.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail after she pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail after she pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Maxwell denied bail on Epstein-related sex abuse charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, will remain behind bars until trial after she was denied bail Tuesday as a risk to flee rather than face charges she recruited girls for the f…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
California couple pleads guilty in college bribery scheme

BOSTON (AP) — A couple pleaded guilty Tuesday to bribing their daughter’s way into the University of Southern California as part of the college admissions cheating scheme.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Mourners pay final respects to girl shot to death in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — Mourners paid their final respects Tuesday to an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing.